Reduced Costs

Commercial drones aren’t designed with a specific mission or user in mind. There are inherent performance losses and added operating costs, when using them for off-design conditions.

Custom UAS

This is a niche program that will get you on the fast track to developing your own in-house, unmanned aircraft, and customize drone platforms and services for streamlined solutions.

Core Training

The core training and consulting portion of the program takes six weeks. Each week contains an introductory video, followed by multimedia lessons containing training topics and design tools.

6 Week Training Program

The first three weeks covers basic drone design including structural and fluid dynamics, with computational validation. The fourth week includes fabrication techniques, including how to use composite materials and 3D printing. The fifth and six week concludes with laboratory and flight testing.

Concept to Validation...

Wind tunnel testing is required to validate the aerodynamic performance of a drone in near-real-life flight conditions. It allows engineers to uncover adverse flow behavior that computer simulations may not show. Flow visualization with smoke allows engineers to see what the flow is doing. We observe how the flow behaves around components such as cameras or sensors that are exposed…

Dr. Victor Maldonado & Peter Mancuso

Who We Are

We work directly with the client to develop optimal mission-specific drones by providing a six–week online training course and critical one-on-one consulting calls during the six-week program; Commercial UAS Developer...Read More

Dr. Victor Maldonado is Founder and Chief Consultant at Drone Developer. He is an expert and researcher in the fields of experimental aerodynamics and unmanned aerial system (UAS) design and flight-testing... Read More

Peter Mancuso

Peter Mancuso is a Consultant at Drone Developer. He has a strong controls background in aerospace factory automation/manufacturing, and research background in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight controls and testing... Read More

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NSF CAREER Award to Improve Rotor Blade Performance at the NHERI Wall of Wind Experimental Facility An NSF CAREER Award was recently granted to study fundamental fluid vortex breakdown at high Reynolds numbers in wind turbines and vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft and drones. This project, awarded in the amount of $500,000 on January, 2018 is entitled “Control of…

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This is a niche program that will get you on the fast track to developing your own in-house, unmanned aircraft, and customize drone platforms and services for streamlined solutions. We work directly with the client to develop optimal mission-specific drones by providing a six–week online training course and critical one-on-one consulting calls during the six-week program; Commercial UAS Developer.